Taliban Marks First Month Of No Combat Deaths With Celebratory Gunfire, 37 Killed

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — No Taliban militants died in the month of March, marking the first such event since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, insurgent officials said.

It is only the fourth such month no Afghan died violently since 330 BCE, when the Macedonians defeated Darius III and briefly occupied the mountain region.

Taliban sources we…